* Astronomy

Sunspot 12135 captured with a 100mm refractor and webcam. Sunspot 12132 captured with a 100mm refractor and webcam.

At 4.15pm today, AUTs $1 million radio telescope will go live the first stage in a trans-Tasman bid to win right to build a $NZ4 billion megascience project called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The dish, built by Michigans Patriot Systems and assembled at the Warkworth Satellite Station north o...

Title: WASP-104b and WASP-106b: two transiting hot Jupiters in 1.75-day and 9.3-day orbits Author: A. M. S. Smith, D. R. Anderson, D. J. Armstrong, S. C. C. Barros, A. S. Bonomo, F. Bouchy, D. J. A. Brown, A. Collier Cameron, L. Delrez, F. Faedi, M. Gillon, Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew, G. Hébrard, E. Jehin, M....

Title: KM3NeT: A Next Generation Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea Authors: A. Kappes (University Erlangen-Nuremberg), for the KM3NeT Consortium To complement the IceCube neutrino telescope currently under construction at the South Pole, the three Mediterranean neutrino telesc...

A possible magnitude 15.6 supernova was discovered on the 29th January, 2012, in the spiral galaxy NGC 1309, in the constellation Eridanus, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search. The supernova is located 15" west and 43" nor...

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (L.S.B. Leakey) (7 August 1903 - 1 October 1972) was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. Read more

The Forest Vale (H4) meteorite fell in New South Wales, Australia, on the 7th August, 1942. A total mass of 26 kg was recovered. 33° 21' 0"S, 146° 51' 30"E

The Muraid (L6) meteorite fell in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on the 7th August, 1924. A total mass of 4.7 kg was recovered. 24° 30'N, 90° 13'E

The Nobleborough (Eucrite-pmict) meteorite fell in Maine, USA, on the 7th August, 1823. A total mass of 2.3 kg was recovered. 44° 5'N, 69° 29'W

The Andreevka (L3) meteorite fell in Donetsk, Ukraine, on the 7th August, 1969. A total mass of 600 g was recovered. 48° 42'N, 37° 30'E

The Kadonah (H6) meteorite fell in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the 7th August, 1822. A total mass of 89 g was recovered. 27° 5'N, 78° 20'E

NGC 7380 (also Wizard Nebula, Collinder 452 and OCL 244) is a magnitude +7.2 open star cluster located 7000 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. NGC 7380 is a typical star-forming region in the Milky Way's outer spiral arms. The custer contains very energetic young massive stars of type O...

Comet P/2014 L3 (Hill) is at Perihelion (1.854 AU) on the 28th June 2014

Orbital elements: 2014 OF300 Earth MOID = 0.0052 AU Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC M 319.21682 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33782863 Peri. 69.87035 +0.92738398 -0.36898430 a 2.0417618 Node 311.72842 +0.30487736 +0.84101919 e 0.6161464 Incl. 4.74392 +0.21681503 +0.39564796 P 2.92 H 26.3 G...

The 320 - 710 metre wide asteroid 2006 BB27 will make a close pass (48.6 lunar distances, 0.1249 AU), travelling at 16.16 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th August 2014 @ 22:00 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...